try one's patience

Still, such characters can also try one’s patience, making a series difficult to watch, no matter how good it is.

Harry and Sally are both so much more, and if that makes them annoying, the kind of people that might try one’s patience at a dinner party, well, lucky for us, we only have to watch them at the movies.

Harry and Sally are both so much more, and if that makes them annoying, the kind of people that might try one’s patience at a dinner party, well, lucky for us, we only have to watch them at the movies.

In the third place, there are special annoyances in the service of a public, which includes always some inconsiderate and many ignorant persons, and these will frequently try one's patience, however angelic and forbearing.

“True, true, and I would not speak slightingly of them, but they do try one’s patience; here is the wind failing, and we all ready to hoist sail,” returned the captain with another growl, a glance at the sky, and a frown at his vessel, everything about which betokened readiness for instant departure.